Porch-light



. CARL H. BISSELL, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, .ASSEGNUR T0 CRG'USE-I-IINDS COMPANY, 0F SYRAC'USE, NEW" YORK, A C'SRPURATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application ined fune si, 191e. serial No. 241,220.

T0 c/,ZZ whom, t may concern Be it known that I, CARL H. BissnLL7 a citizen oi the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county o1 Oncaidaga and State oil New York, have invented a certain new and useful Porch-Light, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionr relates to electric conduit outlet boxes and has for its obj ect what for convenience is called a porch light which is particularly simple in construction and highly efficient and durable in use, and in which the numbers or other sign are readily accessible, and adjustable to :tace in the desired direction; and the invention consists inthe novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed. i l

ln describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a. vertical sectional View, partly in elevation of this porch box.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2 2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 52.-2, F 1, the lower section being shown in elevation and being partly displaced out of its normal position.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view illustrating the means for holding the glass panels in position and for detachably locking the lower section to the upper.

This porch box comprises, generally, upper and lower sections, the lower section being detachably and reversibly mounted on the upper section and having front and rear transparent faces arranged at an angle to each other. Y

The upper section'l is in the form of an elongated rectangular box having 'flanges 3 at its ends for securement to a suitable sup port and also having means for connection to an electric conduit as a nipple 4, here shown as adjustably mounted in an upwardly extending neclr or nipple 5 on top of the section 1, the nipple 4 being adjustable to diierent angles in order to make connecn tion with the electric conduit inclosing the service wires. In diilierent installations, the conduits are located diiierently relatively to the boX and hence the nipple 5 being adjustable is adaptable to the different positions of the conduits. The box is also provided with means as a bracket 6 for supporting an electric lamp socket 7 in 4horizontal position 1n the section 1 and is open at its lower side.

The section 2 is shown as having a verticalA front side wall 8 and an inclined rear wall 9 converging downwardly to the Vlower edge of the front wall 8, the walls 8, 9 being provided respectively with openings or windows 10, 11 extending throughout the greater portions of said walls 8 and 9.

These openings are closed by transparent or translucent glass panels 12 and 13 arranged on the inner side of the section 2 and held in position by spring pressed means.

The panel 12 on the vertical side of the section 1 is preferably shown as formed of two layers of glass, the rear layer of which is translucent, and the street numbers or other information are inserted between the layers of glass. In the day time these numbers show up plainly against the translucent layer, and at night they vshow up equally plainly when the lamp is illuminated as the light passes through the translucent layer.

The panel 12 has its lower margin inserted between the lower margin 14 of the open- 10 and shoulders 15 located in the rear of and spaced apart from the margin 14 and the upper edge of the panel 12 is located below a rib 16.

rlhe panel is held in position byrspring clips 17 at the opposite end margins of the vertical wall and overlying the end margins of the glass panel 12. To remove the glass panel for the purpose oi' inserting the numbers or for any other purpose, the upper edge of the panel 12 is pressed inwardly against the action of the spring clips 17 until the upper edge oef said glass panel clears the rib 16 when the panel is pushed upwardly and removed and the numbers are inserted between the layers thereof. Itis replaced by the reverse of this operation.

The panel 13 on the inclined side of the box is of corrugated or prismatic glass and is held in position by spring tongues 18 pressing on the opposite end margins thereof which are lecated in the rear of the end margins of the wall formed with the opening 11.

The lower section 2 is detachably and reversibly mounted on the lower side of the upper section, and as here shown, the upper section is formed with internal lugs or should-ers 19 at its lower corners at opposite Patented June 21, 1921. Y

sides of the lower open side of the section, and the lower section is provided with hookshaped lugs or shoulders 19a coacting with the shoulders 19 on one side of the open side of the section 17 and with spring pressed tongues 2O having hook shaped ends 21, coacting with the set of lugs or shoulders 19 on the opposite side of the section 1, the tongues 20 being depressible .to disengage them from the contiguous shoulders 19, by buttons 22 extending through the wall 10.

" The reversible feature of the lower section 2 is particularly advantageous in that in installing the upper section on porches, etc., the pipe or electric conduit containing the service wires .is attached to the nipple 4 from any direction that happens-to be convenient without regard tothe position to be occupied by the section 2, or in other words, the sectionl is mounted in any position it happens to come or which suits the workman, and' therefore in order to meet thisv conditiqn the lower section is made reversible so that its vertical side will face the street, and its inclined side will come parv alle] to the incline of the steps.

The spring pressed tongues 2O and 18 are here shown as bent from a single piece of metal and the spring clips 17 and the tongues 20 and 18 are held in position by fastening screws 24 common to all of said parts.. y

In operation, the section 1 is placed on a suitable support as an overhead beam on the porch and connection made with an electric conduit, the nipple 4 being adjustable in order to facilitate the adjustment of said nipple to the position of the conduit, and as the vertical side through which the numbers are exposed faces forwardly and the inclined side rearwardly toward the stepsof the porch, in order that such positioning of the section 2 may be brought about in different installations, the section 2 can be readily detached and reversed to bring about the proper facing of its walls 10 and 11.

What I claim is:

1;A porch light of the classA described comprising a boX including upper and lower sections, the upper section being provided with means for connection to an electric conduitand with means for supporting an electric lamp socket, and the lower section being provided with transparent faces on opposite sides thereof, one face being-vertical and the other being inclined and converging toward the lower edge of the vertical face and adapted to throw light downwardly and the lower section being reversiblyv and detachably mounted on the upper section and being reversible to position the inclined face Vwhereby-it is adapted to project light on the steps of a porch, substantially as and for the purpose described.

`2. A porch light comprising a boX includ- `the opposite side of the upper section, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

3. A porch light comprising a boX including upper and lower sections, the upper section having means for connection with an electric conduit, and means for supporting an electric lamp socket, the upper section being open at its lower side and provided with shoulders at opposite sides of the openL side, the lower section being open at its upper side and detachably mounted Von the lower side of the bottom section and having fixed shoulders for interlocking with the shoulders on' either side of the upper section, latches coacting with the shoulders on the other side of the upper section, and operating means for the latches extending through the contiguous side of the lower v section, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. A porch light comprising a boX including upper and lower sections, the upper section having means for connection with a conduit, and means for supporting an electric lamp socket, the upper section being open at its lower side and the lower section being open at its upper side and including front and rear walls arranged at an i inclined angle to each other, the rear wall converging downwardly toward the front wall, the front and rear walls being formed with openings and with glass panels covering the openings, spring means arranged on the inside of the boX and behind the margins of the walls at the ends of the openings, for holding the panels in position, the lower section being detachably and reversibly mounted on the open side of the upper section, and means for detachably holding the lower to the upper section in either of its positions including spring catches arranged inside of the lower section andoperable from the outside thereof and being located in the rear of the margins of one of the walls at the ends of the opening therein, ulstantially as and for the purpose speciie f In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 7th day of June, 1918. Y CARL II, BISSELL. i 

